From mid-December, the night train between Brussels and the Austrian city of Innsbruck will be discontinued. Night trains will continue to run between Brussels and the capital Vienna. They will from now on run all year round and the frequency will be increased from two to three times a week. The Austrian railway company ÖBB announced this on Wednesday.
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The night train to Vienna will depart from Brussels on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings from December 13, arriving in Vienna shortly after 9 a.m. the following morning, ÖBB boss Andreas Matthä said at the presentation of the company’s 2021 transport plan. From the Austrian capital, the train then leaves for Belgium on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings.
On January 20, the first ÖBB ‘Nightjet’ from Austria arrived in Belgium, the first night train in our country since 2003. The standard then traveled on the first night train in seventeen years. In Belgium, the train stops in Liège, Brussels North and Brussels South.
In December this year, ÖBB will also launch night trains from Austria to the Netherlands. They will run daily between Amsterdam and Vienna and Innsbruck.
Three weeks ago it was already leaked that the connection between Belgium and Innsbruck was at risk after reporting by Bruzz. ÖBB spokesman Bernhard Rieder then confirmed this to the press agency Belgian: “As things stand now, it looks like we will focus on the Brussels-Vienna connection,” he said at the time.
ÖBB is investigating even more possible destinations for its night trains. ‘My goal is clear: I would like to see an expanded night train network in Europe by 2028: from Berlin to Paris, from Stockholm to Rome,’ says Andreas Matthä.
The federal government in our country is also sympathetic to the night train. In of preformatienota it became clear that the De Croo government would work towards making Brussels an international hub for night trains as well.
Earlier this year it was announced that a night train would be coming between the Swedish city of Malmö and Brussels. The Swedish government issued a tender for this.
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